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    A Year in Reading: Greg Afinogenov

    by Greg Afinogenov Dec 04, 2020 4 minutes

    I imagine all these essays will be preoccupied by pandemic reading in one form or another, and this one is no exception. In the spring I was on sabbatical, working on a project that was going nowhere and then watching my summer research plans evaporate over the course of a week. The least significant of casualties, for sure—but it made me read voraciously in compensation. (I should say I almost never read a book as soon as it comes out, so this list will be free of current-year promotion of books by my friends and so on.) Novels, poetry, left-wing politics: almost everything except scholarship in my field. Never have I felt my own academic

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